Sequential excerpts from the book ‘God Passes By’, written in 1944 by Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Baha’i Faith

April 8, 2026

Some “Princes of the royal blood” were also drawn to Bahá’u’lláh’s “circle of…associates and acquaintances”

Princes of the royal blood, amongst whom were such personages as the Ná’ibu’l-Íyálih, the Shujá‘u’d-Dawlih, the Sayfu’d-Dawlih, and Zaynu’l-‘Ábidín Khán, the Fakhru’d-Dawlih, were, likewise, irresistibly drawn into the ever-widening circle of His associates and acquaintances. 

- Shoghi Effendi (‘God Passes By’, chapter 8)